If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Selection of crews is always been somewhat of a mystery.

This vehicle is performing like a champ. I've got a super spaceship under me.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless...

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a lot of little angry ions out there going very fast. We were hitting them very fast.